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by jclay 4mo ago
It almost appears as if the code was minified. The variable names are short and formatting looks like it's written to minimize whitespace. Did it write it in this compact format all on it's own?
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by jclay 7mo ago
Has anyone tackled this for Windows? WSL isn’t ideal when shipping a consumer app to a non-developer target audience since it requires some setup.
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by jclay 9mo ago
I thought the macOS notarization process was annoying until we started shipping Windows releases. It’s basically pay to play to get in the good graces of Windows Defender. I think all-in it was over $1k upfront to get the various certs. The
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by jclay 10mo ago
Exciting work! I’ve often wondered if an LLM with the right harness could restore and optimize an aging C/C++ codebase. It would be quite compelling to get an old game engine running again on a modern system. I would expect most of the
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by jclay 1y ago
the libs in the bench don’t really have an external deps. will be much more interesting to see the results with ffmpeg, Qt, etc. The original source releases from any repo here would also be great candidates: https://github.com&#
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by jclay 1y ago
This looks great. I would love something that can just incrementally ingest all of the unread messages across various platforms locally and give a summary about what needs a reply most urgently
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by jclay 2y ago
I find the Chromium codebase to be one of the best resources for learning large-scale, high quality modern C++ best practices. They stay on a bleeding edge toolchain: near tip of tree clang, lld and libc++ is used on all platforms. They sta
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by jclay 2y ago
I agree. Topics like “how is the lifetime of a QObject exposed to the QML engine managed?” lack coverage and clarity. On the surface it is simple, but in practice it’s an extremely complex topic that has been a source for many bugs in our m
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by jclay 2y ago
I'll also add that I was never able to get the instability to show up when running the classic stress testing tools: MemBench, Prime95, and Intel's own stability tests could all run for hours and pass. There's something uniqu
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by jclay 2y ago
I was seeing constant instability when running basically any large C++ build that was saturating all of the cores. I was getting odd clang segfaults indicating an AST was invalid, that would succeed on a re-run. This was getting very frustr
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by jclay 2y ago
Here’s another great article on the topic. I particularly like the animations in this one. https://www.propublica.org/article/train-derailment-long-tra...
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by jclay 2y ago
I wrote about a small fraction of this, CFRunLoop: https://blog.meldstudio.co/macos-cfrunloop-internals-schedul... libdispatch source code is an enlightening read for those interested in diving deeper into the C Runtime pow
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by jclay 2y ago
There’s a very minimal example using C++ interop in Qt’s test suite: https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative/tree/dev/tests/manual/he... I’ve kicked around with the C++ interop a few times. Project
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by jclay 3y ago
We build meldstudio.co (a performance oriented desktop app) using Qt/QML and managed to entirely avoid Qt Creator. It’s like traveling back in time coming from a VS Code configured with clangd and LLDB debugger. Really wish they would
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macOS CFRunLoop Internals: Scheduling High-Precision Timers and Recurring Tasks(blog.meldstudio.co)
1 points by jclay 3y ago|1 comments
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by jclay 3y ago
This is the first in a series of posts I have planned about working with low-level run loop APIs provided by the CoreFoundation C library. I demonstrate how they can be used in a C++ app by building up some higher level abstractions and RAI
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by jclay 4y ago
I just founded a company where we're building a cross-platform native desktop app. Perhaps given we're on HN we can scope this to ask why aren't any _startups_ building native desktop apps? It's something I wonder about
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by jclay 4y ago
I just did this in the last few weeks — I’m a first time solo founder, engineer and mostly introverted. We’re pre-product launch and no customers. I just finished our first seed round, oversubscribed. Especially with customers and two engin
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by jclay 7y ago
I've created a few projects with Dash in the past and it's amazing how quick it is to get something interactive up in about 20 minutes. It definitely has a narrow set of use cases, but I had that Rails ah-ha moment for the first t
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by jclay 7y ago
It's sad to see Sourcetrail didn't make it as a commercial product. I really enjoyed it when I tried it out a year or so ago. I appreciate the retrospective on the hurdles you faced. Could you share some learnings for things that
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Mochi: A user friendly spaced repetition system(mochi.cards)
4 points by jclay 7y ago|0 comments
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by jclay 7y ago
I’ve used Anki pretty consistently throughout my university studies for just about every course. I plan to continue using it to keep a high level overview of some of the important maths concepts I want to stay fresh on. I’ve been enjoying M
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by jclay 7y ago
The rep told me that they had intentionally avoided cities with a heavy presence of tech workers. Based on the survey I completed, they are looking for a diversity in eye color and those using colored contact lenses. He mentioned to me they
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by jclay 7y ago
This is absolutely legitimate. I was approached by a Google Rep and completed the series of tests for the $5 gift card. Mostly out of curiosity to see what they’re up to. It’s using what appeared to be a Pixel 3 with a heavy duty case wrapp
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by jclay 7y ago
This happened to me in Central Park a few months ago. It certainly is Google and they offered me a $5 Starbucks gift card for completing the process. I discussed in length with the Google rep who was doing it and got some interesting answer
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by jclay 7y ago
I was surprised to find on a recent reinstall of Windows 10 that it no longer included the start menu full of sponsored apps and games. It was a pretty minimal install, all things considered. This was with the Education edition which is a d
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by jclay 7y ago
Agree with the others here that the title is not accurate or representative of the conclusions of this paper. “In the experiments presented in this paper, we predict tactics and their arguments by looking only at the conclusion of the curre
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by jclay 7y ago
I still appreciate the WSL approach quite a bit more. I use them as “containers” (though to be clear they don’t support running Linux containers) If I need to test that my C++ project will compile and run on Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch, it is
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by jclay 7y ago
I switched from Mac to Windows a few years ago and I have to say, I’m always excited to see their latest announcements and OS updates. When was the last time macOS had an update that was exciting for developers? They’re phasing out OpenGL,
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by jclay 7y ago
Sure, but it must also be recognized that this is true only if you value your data. In our bubbles we all certainly do. But in the context of a resident in a developing country who can’t afford to pay, the trade off of allowing access to yo

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